What the adults said at S.F. pot summit

Monday I went to a San Francisco press conference for what was billed as the “First International Summit on the Legalization and Use of Cannabis.” I had the chance to ask former president of Mexico Vicente Fox what specifically he thought Mexican drug cartels would do if the United States were to legalize marijuana.

Fox answered that while he could not give a “concrete answer,” he expected that legal marijuana in the United States would reduce the cartels’ income, and that would force them “to start a reduction of their activities.” There’d be less money to bribe government officials and less money to buy guns.

The current president, Mexican President, Enrique Pena Nieto, has a take on the war on drugs not in line with Fox.

By the way, Fox also said that he believes in legalizing all drugs, but wants to take it a “step at a time.”

For my column, which had to do more with the feel of the marijuana summit, go here.